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- W4206219722 abstract "Epicurean ethics is best known for its hedonism—Epicurus and his followers hold that pleasure (hēdonē) is the highest good and that all actions should be chosen for the sake of pleasure. Ancient critics implied that their philosophy was licentious, and the reputation stuck. In fact, though, Epicurus holds that the best hedonic strategy involves limiting one’s desires to those that are easy to fulfill, and in particular to those they call “natural and necessary.” Relatedly, they identify the highest pleasure with absence of bodily pain (aponia) and freedom from mental distress (ataraxia). So understood, the pleasant life requires virtue, and indeed is guaranteed by it. Nevertheless, as befits staunch hedonists, the Epicureans insisted that virtue is valuable only as a means to pleasure, however indispensable and infallible a means. The path to virtue runs through philosophy, understood as a sort of cognitive-behavioral therapy avant la lettre. In particular, the Epicureans seek to rid themselves of irrational fears, including preeminently the fear of death. (Recent philosophy has intensely scrutinized their diverse argumentative strategies for removing fear of death.) Finally, Epicurean ethics has social and political dimensions. They consider politics to be intrinsically bothersome and generally not worth the effort, and they also consider marriage and family to be sources of troubling personal attachments. However, they praise friendship and chosen communities of Epicurean friends—a commitment which raises concerns about the coherence of self-regarding and other-regarding elements in their ethical theory." @default.
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- W4206219722 date "2021-10-27" @default.
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- W4206219722 title "Epicurean Ethics" @default.
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